A Washington, DC Thriller.
What if your childhood hero, the current governor of your state and likely the next president, committed suicide while on vacation with his mistress in the Caribbean? What if you knew facts that pointed toward murder, but the local police refused to investigate because that might harm tourism?
If you're Dean Granville, rising star sports reporter for The Washington Post who hopes to cover the White House someday, you use your latent investigative skills and take matters into your own hands. But what if the group responsible for the murder is watching and planting evidence against you?
Frustrated by his inability to prove the case, Granville hatches a clandestine plan to uncover the truth. His exploits eventually lead to his arrest for the governor's murder.
Granville's brother and their girlfriends perform a daring extrication during a prisoner transfer so Dean can continue his quest. The four of them make judicious use of their unique skills and must deal with torturous personal losses as they trace leads from Nassau to Richmond to the nation's capital.
Relentlessly pursuing elusive evidence pointing toward the unknown mastermind of the governor's murder, the group makes two chilling discoveries: a company of former CIA operatives carried out the assassination and a political conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the government will stop at nothing to keep it a secret.
Granville's amateur team must make agonizing choices between justice and vengeance as they eliminate suspects in a race against time, their pursuers, and the FBI culminating in a showdown in the nation's capital.
Caribbean HEAT was originally published as To Promote the General Welfare.
About the Author: Edward Wallace Richbourg graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina State University with a degree in engineering. After working for one of America's largest defense contractors in North Carolina, West Virginia and Florida, he moved to Richmond, Virginia where he studied law. Back in North Carolina, he directed the development of a software package used by government agencies and corporations to send messages and files over encrypted connections between PCs, servers, and wireless devices.
His passions in life, besides his family and writing, are food, wine, college sports, music (especially country, classical, and the kind Frank Sinatra used to sing) and playing tennis.
He splits his time between New York City, Atlanta, and North Carolina with occasional forays into Walt Disney World and Hilton Head Island.
